A MIDDLE PASSAGE
by Yide Cai (蔡逸得)
YIDE CAI (蔡逸得) (Playwright) is a poet, translator and award-winning playwright from Shenzhen, China. His work has been featured at the OOB Festival, La MaMa, The Tank, Kanini Fest and more. He is currently under commission from Theatre of Others and will have a play produced off-Broadway this summer. He is a fellow of the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, a member of TPOC Producing Cohort and a scholar at Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Yide also works internationally as a producer, director and dramaturg with credits including German National Theater Weimar, Prague Shakespeare Company and Chinese premieres of Dead Poets Society, The Book of Will and Lydia & The Troll. He is an MFA in Playwriting candidate at Boston University and holds a BA in Playwriting & German Studies from Emory University.
GENEVIEVE ‘GIGI’ JURAS (Director) is a North Carolina-bred director-choreographer focused on developing new work using choreographic languages to tell stories. The Tank, NYTW, Flea, RE/VENUE, La MaMa ETC.
XIAOXIAO SUN (孙骁骁) (Man) appeared in film Blue Sun Palace (2024 Cannes winner), Lucky Lu (2025 Cannes selected) and is reviving Thoroughly Modern Millie with its authors (workshop with The MUNY). @sxxinyc
POLINA LASHKEVICH (Woman): Ukrainian-born. Five years working with renowned Russian Academic Theater. Collaborated with Academy Award-winning Tom Stoppard. Green card approved by the U.S. as an Extraordinary Actress.
KATIE MAY PORTER (Grandma) is an NYC-born-and-raised actor who loves engineering and an engineer who loves acting. Follow on IG: @ActressEngineer.
NOVA GOMEZ (Granddaughter) is so pumped to work with this lovely team. They want to work hard to uplift Asian-American voices. Thank you mom. IG: @novanishing.
NAOMI KIM (Stage Directions) is a BIPOC actor, dramaturg and combat choreographer based in Boston, MA. She focuses on promoting new plays about minority populations.
MOTHER’S DAY
by Betsy Anne Huggins
BETSY ANNE HUGGINS (Playwright) is an educator, director and playwright based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her short plays have been read, developed and produced by Louisville Fringe Festival, This Bridge Theatre and Squallis Puppeteers. Her play Mother’s Day was selected for the 2024 Midwest Dramatists Conference. A career teaching artist, Betsy has taught playwriting with Actors Theatre of Louisville and Alabama Shakespeare Festival, guest lectured at Hanover College and University of Monticello and led playwriting workshops for Auburn University, Alabama State University and Troy University.
ZAC CAMPBELL-HOOGENDYK (Director) is a theatre artist living in Louisville. He is beyond excited to bring Betsy’s play to the OOB Festival. Never without Kasey and Luna.
MEG CAUDILL (Actor) hails from Appalachia but currently lives in Louisville, KY where she works as an actor, director and teaching artist for various local theatre companies.
LOGAN FORD (Actor) started working with Amios in 2010 and was a frequent contributor to their monthly short play series Shotz! as both a writer and actor.
LYNN R. GUERRA (Actor) is a multidisciplinary artist whose current biggest project is keeping a newborn alive. Synchronicity is poetic. Thanks Zac, Betsy and Zach!
THIS BRIDGE THEATRE (Producer) originally produced Betsy Huggins’ Mother’s Day during our version of AMIOS’ Shotz! We are committed to supporting Louisville’s already vibrant community of Theatre Artists.
VIDALIA UNWIN (Director) is a playwright, director and sketch performer with her group Show! The Show. Her full-length plays include Domesticate and Punk Snot.
LEFT OVERS
by Roni Ragone
RONI RAGONE (Playwright): Night Night, Roger Roger (published by Dramatic Publishing Company; University of California, Santa Barbara + 13 additional productions around the U.S.). Up Strung Down (Amplify, The Tank: Moonlight Series, SheNYC semifinalist 2025, New Works Festival finalist). We’re All Girls Here (Top 30 in 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, West Texas A&M University, University of Evansville & more). my barricade (2025 House of Rooted Festival, 48th OOB, The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2025 Smith & Kraus Inc. [monologue only], Doubles). Left Overs (Precarious Nights [UK debut!], Boston Theatre Company’s Queer Voices Festival, Cry Havoc: Playlist). Heading North (OUT/PLAY: Summer Shorts). “Brothers in Arms” (Capital Q Festival). Co-founder of Fresh Binder Productions.
MARTAVIUS PARRISH (Director): Broadway: Into the Woods (Tony Nomination: Best Revival, Best Direction of a Musical), Once Upon a Mattress. 2024 Drama League Fellow. MartaviusParrish.com
MCALLISTER STOWELL (Max) is a recent transplant here in NYC, and they’re honored to participate in this festival alongside such talented artists! // University of Evansville ’23 // mcallisterstowell.com.
JOHN TORRES (Ernest) is a lifelong theatre actor and director who always enjoys the opportunity to help bring original plays to life in festivals such as this one.
ANGEL VILLALOBOS (Stage Directions) is an artist from LA. He likes plants and rainy days. BFA, BA: UCSB. Salud!
MEETING THE FBI AGENT WHO READS MY EVERY TEXT MESSAGE AND SEDUCING HIM BECAUSE HE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO TRULY KNOWS ME: A ROMANTIC TRAGEDY IN THREE PARTS
by Claire Greising
CLAIRE GREISING (Playwright) is a playwright from Evanston, Illinois. She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, where she also teaches in the English department. Her play lonely people on the internet was named a semi-finalist for the 2025 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, received an honorable mention for the 2024 Relentless Award, won Brooklyn College’s Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing, was featured in the Loading Dock Theatre’s Forklift Reading Series, and benefited from further development through The Workshop Theater’s Intensive program. She has other plays, too, which can be found on New Play Exchange. As a comedian, Claire has performed stand-up, improv and sketch comedy in theaters, bars, basements and backyards across the country.
ANN MARIE DORR (Director) is a theatre maker and playwright. Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 17/19. Associated Artist of Target Margin Theater. Brooklyn College Playwriting MFA ’25.
KURT CHIANG (Agent Morris) is a writer/performer who recently completed his MFA in playwriting at Brooklyn College. He is an alum of The Neo-Futurist Theater in Chicago.
INDIA SMITH (Sarah) is an MFA acting student at Brooklyn College. She has a BA in Musical Theatre from Kennesaw State University.
RICHARD HOLLMAN (Stage Directions): Writing/performing/music/teaching: Cherry Lane, Playwrights Horizons, La MaMa, Lucille Lortel, Law and Order, All My Children, Baby Wants Candy, Buckley School, Westpoint, Real Housewives of NY.
2025 OOB Festival Credits
Festival Sponsor
Concord Theatricals
2025 Festival Judges
Douglas Carter Beane
Eleanor Burgess
Matt Cox
Emily Feldman
Zora Howard
Kristin Leahey
Margaret Ledford
Jill Rafson
Susan Soon He Stanton
Anne Washburn
Alexis Williams
Leah Nanko Winkler
Honorary Playwrights
Rachel Bonds
Miranda Rose Hall
Lauren Yee
Festival Co-Artistic Directors
Garrett Anderson
Casey McLain
House Manager
Tyler Mullen
Box Office Manager
Rosemary Bucher
Marketing Team
Julian Harper Galkin
Jeremiah Hernandez
Courtney Kochuba
Ally Varitek
Imogen Lloyd Webber
Festival Production Coordinators
Julian Harper Galkin
Lane Ruble
Festival Fire Guard
Ranana Chernin
Festival Support Staff
Ella Andrew, Max Bahneman, Shaina Gilks, Rachel Levens, Liz Minski, Nate Netzley, Kristen Rea, Erin Sabat, Rachel Smith, Ally Varitek
2025 Submissions Readers
Max Bahneman, Caroline Barnard, Jim Colleran, Oli Gordon, Jeremiah Hernandez, Ben Keiper, Leona Koo, Rachel Levens, Amy Rose Marsh, Debbie McLean, Liz Minski, Gabriela Morales, Tyler Mullen, Nate Netzley, Jac Norris, Brianne Partington, Theresa Posorske, Kristen Rea, Dominic Russo, Erin Sabat, Meg Schadl, Rachel Smith, Jackson Used, Faith Williams
Special Thanks
Sean Flahaven, Bill Gaden, Concord, City Theatre Miami, Dramatists Guild of America, National New Play Network
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